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All religious expression is symbolism.

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Albert Pike
Age: 81 †
Born: 1809
Born: December 29
Died: 1891
Died: April 2
Lawyer
Boston
Massachusetts
A. Pike
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Religious
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A war for a great principle ennobles a nation. A war for commercial supremacy, upon some shallow pretext, is despicable, and more than aught else demonstrates to what immeasurable depths of baseness men and nations can descend.
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Man's real genius and knowledge remains preserved in books
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The common right is nothing more or less than the protection of all, pouring its rays on each. This protection of each by all, is Fraternity.
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Know thou the self (spirit) as riding in a chariot, The body as the chariot. Know thou the intellect as the chariot-driver, And the mind as the reins. The senses, they say, are the horses The objects of sense, what they range over. The self combined with senses and mind Wise men call the enjoyer.
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Will is the dynamic soul-force.
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There are greater and better things in us all, than the world takes account of, or than we take note of if we would but find them out.
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We must pass through the darkness, to reach the light.
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It is not in the books of the Philosophers, but in the religious symbolism of the Ancients, that we must look for the footprints of Science, and re-discover the Mysteries of Knowledge.
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Almost all the noblest things that have been achieved in the world, have been achieved by poor men poor scholars, poor professional men, poor artisans and artists, poor philosophers, poets, and men of genius.
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The eyes of the cheerful and of the melancholy man are fixed upon the same creation but very different are the aspects which it bears to them.
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What we have done for ourselves alone dies with us what we have done for others and the world remains and is immortal.
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Philosophy is a kind of journey, ever learning yet never arriving at the ideal perfection of truth.
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We do not see and estimate the relative importance of objects so easily and clearly from the level or the waving land as from the elevation of a lone peak, towering above the plain for each looks through his own mist.
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That which we say and do, if its effects last not beyond our lives, is unimportant.
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Hypocrisy is the homage that vice and wrong pay to virtue and justice .
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Masonry is identical with the Ancient Mysteries
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Phenomena are constantly folded back upon themselves.
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The sources of our knowledge of the kabalistic doctrines are the books of Yetzirah and Zohar, the former drawn up in the second century, and the latter a little later but they contain materials much older than themselves...In them, as in the teachings of Zoroaster, everything that exists emanates from a source of infinite Light.
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That which we do for ourselves dies with us … that which we do for others lives forever.
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One man is equivalent to all Creation. One man is a World in miniature.
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